Went to the AZ taxidermy show earlier today (6/11) and finally got to see my bobcat and rattlesnake diorama.

It was done by Chris Krueger -- Krueger Creations, and he won another first-place blue ribbon in the Masters Division. The voting for the People's Choice award was going on until 4 p.m., but I imagine he's got a good shot at that, too, since I saw several folks voting for it.

We kind of modeled it off this Bobcat/snake video at the 1:22 mark near the very end.

Bobcat snake video

I took a couple quick pix (below) but didn't use the flash since the mount was sitting close to the wall; it would have caused a great big black shadow. There was already a shadow from the room lights. So without the flash, the pix aren't tack sharp.

I'm sure Chris and Mary will be taking other photos against the nice black backdrop they use. I'll add them when he does.

Update:

Chris also won the People's Choice award with the above mount.

Tony, your mount won:
*State Champion Life Size (Best of Catagory)
*Master's Division - First Place
*Artisan's Award - most artistic piece
*McKenzie's Best Lifesize
and
*People's Choice Award



Here's the mount from a few different angles:









Here are the parts before the alterations. The bobcat form is one of Chris' original sculptures sold through Research.



Krueger's Creations Taxidermy
Chris Krueger
Phoenix, Arizona
halflingrugger@cox.net

Wow!

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
Wow!

Damn right!!!!!

Congratulations Chris, beautiful piece. Very creative.

Man, he cleaned up, huh?

So how much money do we get to split??

Seriously, job well done and thanks for the better pix.

Chris has my bobcat now.

Excellent.

Chris thanks you all for your kind words.
We collaborated on this project and it was great fun seeing it come to fruition.

Kind regards,
Mary